altbighead Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Hi everyone , I would like to participate in cgtalk challenge but my knowledge of particles, shading and lighting is not strong enough so I am wondering if anyone is interested in teaming up together . Whay I can do is set and props modeling , texturing ,abit of lighting and may be comping it together . We have only a month and two weeks so please let me know .If nobody is intrested , I will have to join other team . Peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Mmmm, it's tempting, this challenge looks really cool. I wouldn't attempt it by myself, but maybe if other od[folks] were to join in... Can someone with broadband check out this site? http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/moon.php Maybe download one of the high-res moon surface maps and see how useful they'd be? They even have a normal map, but the problem is that it's not very high-res. I'm sure those 8k maps would be sufficient for many shots, but without matching bump/displacement it's kinda moot. I thought about an all procedural shader for the moon but after looking at some detailed images of the thing it seems like it would be very challenging (I'm not saying impossible). What are those VT Moon Surface Maps and that one DDS file btw? Some more fodder. http://www.astrosurf.com/re/moon.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altbighead Posted March 21, 2005 Author Share Posted March 21, 2005 S 16974[/snapback] \ my p4 machine is choking when i opened those DDS file. They are so huge that not even funny.16384 * 8192 hehe by the way .. does anyone have a space craft screeen caps from armageddon?I am thinking it will be cool to model that kind of space ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 This challenge sounds real interesting but poorly presented. It is presented as a lighting challenge then go in depth how the motion should be based on real physics with little emphasis on lighting. Go figure... Anyhow, the physics part is ripe for CHOPs. The set construction combined with shaders and lighting is the challenge. Much of the VFX work on Apollo 13 was done by Digital Domain way back. This reperesents your target. I also know that many that worked on that film frequent this forum... One of the many things that impressed me on Apollo 13 was that D2 created a physically correct star field from scientific data for the feature as a script file that would load in to Prisms at render time. Hmmm PRISMS. That dates the film. There was also the imax 3D film in space done by DKP right here in Toronto. If it were possible, this was a notch up in realism from Apollo13 and all the VFX work but this time done in Houdini and using Mantra I believe. Again some of the users frequent this forum. Lots of precedence to say it can be done with Houdini... I am getting excited thinking about how many "lens flares" I will get to see in the coming month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I don't have the time to, otherwise I've been working on it already.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I see, so dds is an image format. Old school, agreed. I don't understand the focus on lighting for this challenge. I may be wrong but I thought space lighting is pretty easy, no? There is virtually no light bouncing due to lack of atmosphere, I would think that lighting any interior would be much more difficult to do right. Maybe the challenge here is to make it look interesting? And I would rather attempt the Fantasy part of the challenge, because a) it would be much easier, and more creative freedom (space-craft designs, launch methods, etc). That's just me though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altbighead Posted March 22, 2005 Author Share Posted March 22, 2005 I guess everyone is busy .I think I will go for it anyway .Even if I don't really familir with other aspects , I can take this project as my learning process. I will start my storyboard/previs this week and hopefully can start my modeling soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenP Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I guess everyone is busy .I think I will go for it anyway .Even if I don't really familir with other aspects , I can take this project as my learning process. I will start my storyboard/previs this week and hopefully can start my modeling soon. 17029[/snapback] Do you have started already ? I would like to make this challenge together with you Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altbighead Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 Sven 17087[/snapback] hi there , I am doing a previs right now and honestly the project is quite big for me. What area you wanna work o? and do you wanna lead the project ? Hehe yeh We don't have much time . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvenP Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I would say the best thing would be to have some im chat about how we do the project. You can reach me via yahoo messenger . I am registered there as Sven Pampel. Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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